Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
Humility makes great men twice honorable
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
There is no good war or bad peace
Well done is better than well said.
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.